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Title: The Gypsy-American: An Ethnogeographic Study (Mellen Diaspora Studies, Vol. 1) by David J. Nemeth ISBN: 0-7734-7217-7 Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press Pub. Date: May, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $119.95

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Everyday Life as a Gypsy-American
Comment: I wish I had a dollar for every bad book ever written about Gypsies. Then I'd be a millionaire. But if every book about Gypsies were as good as this one, I'd be broke. What a story! And apparently true (but who knows?). If you read the book, you meet a Gypsy-American named Thomas Nicholas, nicknamed "Samson", who is maybe descended from the legendary Prester John. Sampson's philosophy of life in a nutshell is that "when you plug into the system, the meters start turning," so he never plugs in. He keeps on the move, or settles down from time to time and lives his secret life surrounded by non-Gypsies. Non-Gypsies--including police, university types and wannabes--are curious to know more about him for a ton of reasons, and they are a constant threat. This book is a blue-collar epic about Samson's life and times as a child and as an adult. He is born into a family immigrant coppersmiths. His talent is fixing restaurant pots and pans here and there across the United States, and he has also mastered the dangerous craft of refinishing bakery bowls by hand using fire, acid and tin. Samson tries to make ends meet as a bluecollar worker in America, and his life is full of ups and downs like everyone else. What makes his life especially different and interesting is that he is a Gypsy. Apparently the author, who says he is a non-Gypsy, is Samson's lucky rabbit's foot. He writes about this Gypsy-American's life from the inside out. There are also lots of photographs to back up his stories. This is a non-fiction book, with footnotes and an index and so on, that sometimes reads more like fiction or fantasy. Someone could make a good movie out of this book. I highly recommend it.

Rating: 5
Summary: Gypsy Hide and Seek
Comment: ... The Gypsy-American is a real goldmine that opens up my heart and mind again to the world of gypsies. They are such interesting immigrants and fellow Americans. Secret and mobile and hard working, as the book reveals. The author apparently lived with some gypsies and learned their pot mending skills and paid close attention to details, and shares them with the reader. He also talks about himself being with the gypsies, and about other people who study gypsies and what they go through, and that is interesting, too. What I really learned is that my childhood instincts about gypsies were right. They are romantic! I think my uncle, wherever he is and after all these years, sent me this book too. ...